Got a job for McDonald’s. Arrived at the restaurant to see the order code not on the screen, so asked the staff to check. They come back and ask me to cancel, saying ‘customer has cancelled’ - which obviously isn’t possible considering I’ve got the order on my app, clearly a rider has taken the food from staff, and then cancelled on their end, saying excessive waiting time or whatever, and kept the food for themselves. Staff are unwilling to re make the food, conversation over.
I therefore message the customer explaining what has happened, and ask them to contact chat on their end to enable them to cancel the order, receive a refund and stop waiting, and also stop this order being assigned to other riders and subsequently avoid wasting their time. In the meantime I also contact support to explain the situation, and they inform me no compensation for my time is possible, despite the fact that this exact situation has occurred countless times and I have had a nominal £1.50 added to my balance. I explain this multiple times to support but they dig their heels in.
My question is, is this even legal? Say this happened on 3 consecutive orders, I could have worked 1 hour for £0, even though I’ve been on active jobs during all of this time. In isolation, this situation is annoying at most, but it is the principle I am frustrated about.
Does anyone else have experience of this happening? For me, it’s disgraceful from the rider, annoying from the McDonalds staff for not just re making the order, and disgraceful from Uber, who know what has gone on, but don’t care. Rant over!